Wednesday, April 8, 2015

You can’t stop the change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

(The first person to reply with what the title quote is from
gets a gold star!)

It is interesting to me that people taste a beer once and
decide they don’t like it and will never try it again. As brewers, we are
constantly tasting our own offerings and tweaking recipes to make it the best
beer possible. As a new business, we are settling into our new equipment and
adjusting things like hop and malt additions to even our mainstay beers to
balance characteristics to make the best beer we know how.

Not only are most brewers (I know we are not the only ones
tweaking our recipes) changing things up over time, but the beer tasters
themselves are changing as well. I have noticed that I used to love fresh
onions as a kid, and now I can’t stand them. I used to hate grapefruit and now I eat it all
the time! (I even used to hate broccoli and now… well, no, I still hate
broccoli…)

I guess this little lecture is trying to encourage you to try
a beer you decided you didn’t like last year again this year and the year after
that. Your tastes buds are changing and so is that beer. You might be
pleasantly surprised! It is also to encourage you to not look at beer reviews
from 5 years ago and assume the beer is still going to taste that way. For good
or for bad, the beer will have changed over time and that person that did the
review might taste things differently than you too! Beer flavor depends on so
many factors, the cleanliness of the glass, of the lines, the age of the
keg/can/bottle, and even if you ate spicey or acidic food 5 hours prior to
drinking that beer!

People change over time, so it seems reasonable that your
beer can too. Don’t be shy, give it another try!